Teenager Quotes - Page 23

• I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing, 'Leave (Get Out),' I have been through that. I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. Teenagers are dating.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Real, Artist, Thinking

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• In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable resistance. Older chaps roll their eyes, slick young businesswomen purse their mouths, teenagers look disgusted, waitresses anxious. But it strikes me as ironic that many members of the public fret about British Muslims donning the hijab, yet happily condone the veiling of nursing mothers.

  Rowan Pelling

  Mother, Baby, Eye

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• Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Courage, Writing, Skills

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• The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

  Eddie Floyd

  Inspiration, Groups, Way

  Interview with Ray Stiles, www.mnblues.com. June 12, 1998.

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• Problems associated with the menstrual cycle are now commonplace. The majority of teenagers whom I have seen suffer problems such as PMS, severe cramping, and irregular or heavy cycles. Severe hypothyroidism may cause the menses to stop. Dr. Barnes noted his patients with menstrual problems usually suffered many other telltale symptoms of hypothyroidism. Mine do as well. A large majority of menstrual problems resolve after treatment with dessicated thyroid.

  Mark Starr

  Pms, Suffering, Causes

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• In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

  Mary Cheney

  Pride, Gay, Role Models

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• Odors from decaying food wafting through the air when the door is opened, colorful mold growing between a wet gym uniform and thedamp carpet underneath, and the complete supply of bath towels scattered throughout the bedroom can become wonderful opportunities to help your teenager learn once again that the art of living in a community requires compromise, negotiation, and consensus.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Art, Opportunity, Air

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• Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse team, the president of your senior class, Phi Beta Kappa, or a political activist doesn't mean that your teenager will be or should be the same....Likewise, the fact that you were a wallflower, uncoordinated, and a C student shouldn't mean that you push your child to be everything you were not.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Senior, Children, Team

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of therules and no involvement in decision-making. . . . Involving the adolescent in decisions doesn't mean that you are giving up your authority. It means acknowledging that the teenager is growing up and has the right to participate in decisions that affect his or her life.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Giving Up, Growing Up, Mean

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• [Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.

  Jonathan Capehart

  Family, Mom, Mother

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• Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

  Sarah Polley

  Cynical, Acting, Done

  Interview with Katie Holmes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2013.

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• As a child I was a good boy. Even if I wasn't playing tennis I don't think I'd have done things like smoking or getting drunk. I'm lucky I never liked the taste of alcohol - I know, I'm Scottish so what's wrong with me? - but I never even liked the smell of the stuff. It's the same with smoking, it never appealed to me. I guess I missed out on my Kevin-The-Teenager phase.

  Andy Murray

  Children, Thinking, Boys

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• I was a teenager doing teenager things, and now I have the honor of being on tour with musical giants Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull. I'm doing my music and performing in my own concerts! It just goes to show that anything is possible with hard work.

  Prince Royce

  Hard Work, Musical, Honor

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• One thing that happens often times in family life is that people think maybe the challenge you are having with a child when they are a teenager or even in adolescence that this is going to go on forever and it doesn't. They get to their 20s, they change dramatically in their 20s. So sometimes it's just holding on for the ride, and just being there and holding on for the ride.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Thinking, People

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• I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie.

  RuPaul

  People, Diana, Bowie

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• I'm interested in Internet cultures. I'm interested in what the teenagers who drive the Internet culture are passionate about. I follow their lead - they go to tumblr, I go to tumblr.

  John Green

  Culture, Passionate, Internet

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• I was a very gawky-looking teenager, so I was not cute.

  Lance Bass

  Cute

  "Not My Job: Three Questions About Bass (The Fish) For Lance Bass (The Singer)". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 14, 2015.

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• I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City of Bones came to me, I knew the main characters were teenagers. In my mind they were just very clearly the ages they were, which turned out to mean it was a YA novel.

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Character, Mean

  "Author Interview: Cassandra Clare on City of Bones (Book One, The Mortal Instruments)". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. March 8, 2008.

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• There are a million moving parts to raising kids, and you can't always anticipate them all, especially when they are teenagers and their peers play such a huge role in their lives. If you offer independence, there is one kind of pitfall; if you shelter them too much, there is another. And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

  Anna Quindlen

  Moving, Kids, Simple

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• We have to prepare our teenagers and our children for a world away from us. That requires explanations. That requires understanding.

  Andy Andrews

  Children, Understanding, World

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Living an Extraordinary Life, Finding Your 'Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. November 19, 2013.

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• While I was rapping I was always involved in youth work - I ran music workshops for teenagers and young offenders all the time and also ran a charity for refugee kids for a time.

  Doc Brown

  Rap, Kids, Charity

  Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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• I've never been an idiot - I was a smart girl but I'd do stupid things like go around Asda and nick stuff because my friends told me to. I was a good girl as a teenager.

  Amy Winehouse

  Girl, Stupid, Smart

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you're pandering to them.

  Sarah Dessen

  Firsts, Knows, Ifs

  "WD Interview Bonus Q&A: Sarah Dessen". Writer's Digest Interview, www.writersdigest.com. June 3, 2011.

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• When I was a teenager, I didn't get to do a lot of the things that other kids my age were doing because my dad was very controlling and he wouldn't allow me to go to school activities, like games and dances. So I didn't have positive expectations for my future or really dream about what I could do with my life. I was just trying to survive until I could get out on my own.

  Joyce Meyer

  Dream, Dad, Kids

  Source: www.daystar.com

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• As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

  Richard Linklater

  Writing, College, Play

  "How Richard Linklater Turned a “Crazy, Wildly Impractical Idea” Into an Oscar Front-Runner". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. June 27, 2014.

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